Sentences with phrase «carbon buildings policy»

Last week, the Government confirmed within the Fixing the foundations productivity report its intention not to proceed with the zero carbon buildings policy, which was initially announced in 2007.

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«By getting active in communities, we can raise our voices to defend policies and regulations that will protect wild places and wildlife, reduce carbon emissions, build a modern energy economy based on investment in renewables, and, most crucially, ensure the United States remains fully committed to the vital goals set forth in the Paris Agreement on climate change.»

Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, by promoting the production and use of cleaner fuels in vehicles, buildings and industry.

The poll also found strong support for other policies that would help accelerate Canada's transition to clean energy, including federal support to help provinces use more renewable electricity, switching buildings and vehicles to clean power, and measures to cut the carbon emissions from gasoline and diesel fuel.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human history to date,» says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

It is important that the sequencing of policy steps for achieving the emissions target build from obvious win - wins to more difficult steps such as establishing a shadow price for carbon.

In tracking the climate challenge (science and policy) since the 1980s I see scant evidence that our politics and public attitudes will make it possible to build a carbon price «pull» sufficient to shape energy investments and choices on a meaningful timescale....

The best recent representation of Sachs's views is the paper he and others co-authored with James E. Hansen, the longtime NASA climate scientist who now has a climate policy position at Columbia, in which they build on Hansen's longstanding call for a rising price on carbon.

Under President Obama's Climate Action Plan, the United States has acted under existing laws to cut emissions with sector - specific policies, including: emissions regulations; tax incentives for clean energy technologies; standards for energy - efficient appliances, buildings, and vehicles; and voluntary partnership programs to address market barriers to low - carbon strategies.

It concludes that «given that household travel and residential energy use account for 42 % of total U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, these findings highlight the importance of smart growth policies to build more compact and transit friendly cities as a crucial part of any strategic efforts to mitigate GHG emissions and stabilize climate.»

Toward this end, both countries intend to transition to a low - carbon economy, carry out policy dialogue and cooperate on capacity building and research, development and deployment of climate - friendly technology.

Ecology Building Society focuses its lending on projects that offer the greatest gains in terms of carbon reductions and environmental impact, with its ethical lending policy prioritising sustainable housing practices, sustainable lifestyles, sustainable economic activity, and other ecologically positive projects and ventures.

What's more, many carbon removal systems have not been built at commercial scale yet, so it is possible that a «pre-pay» carbon policy would even be technically infeasible to achieve in the near - term.

The Alliance to Save Energy's National Commission on Energy Efficiency Policy last week proposed a set of efficiency steps for buildings, industry, and transportation that it concluded would reduce U.S. carbon - dioxide emissions by one third, while cutting household energy costs, reducing energy imports, and increasing GDP.

Prior to coming to Synapse, Jenny worked as deputy editor of Singapore - based eco-business.com, where she managed online content and wrote news articles about Asian and global sustainability issues including energy, carbon policy, corporate social responsibility, clean technology, green buildings, water and waste management and livable cities.

Fortunately, there are a number of efforts on which industry and policy leaders can build action on carbon removal.

To achieve the city's policy of 80 % carbon reductions by 2050, drastic reductions in building energy use intensity are required.

Instead, it urges us to concentrate on existing policies and tools by showing how the development of carbon markets could dramatically reduce world greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, triggering policies to build a new low - carbon energy system while restructuring the way agriculture interacts with forests.

Dramatic changes would naturally have to occur as a result — from quick wins like carbon taxes and energy efficiency regulations, to longer - term policies like phasing out combustion - engine cars and carbon - neutral building regulations.

The most important answer to this question is: whatever is most crucial to stopping climate change in your community, whether it be education, recruitment and team - building, campaigning and policy change, or working directly on solutions to cut carbon emissions.

Not Shi - Ling Hsu, who builds an accessible, well - informed, and undeniably persuasive case for the superiority of carbon taxes over alternative climate change policy instruments.

In recent years, Harvard faculty members have made many vital contributions in this area, such as creating an artificial leaf that mimics photosynthesis, designing new chemical processes to reduce fossil fuel dependence, developing new battery technologies, envisioning the future of green buildings and cities, proposing carbon pricing models, and helping to shape progress on international climate agreements, US energy policy, and strategies to reduce emissions in China.

As a clean economy leader, you understand the importance of strong policy and powerful networks to build the foundations for a sustainable, carbon - free prosperity for the region.

The tactic of sharing carbon profits and redistributing malfeasance, works to build complicity in a carbon axis in ways that unconsciously allows harm and cements an archaic energy policy that has no future.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

The Energy Foundation's Climate Program seeks to build support for effective policies that would put a price on carbon and help...

The smart response would be to secure the low - and - rising carbon price and then start pushing other emission reduction policies, namely sector - specific regulations, industrial policies focused on capacity building, and large - scale investments in RD&D.

Toward this end, both countries intend to transition to a low - carbon economy, carry out policy dialogue and cooperate on capacity - building and research, development and deployment of climate - friendly technology.

Yet carbon dioxide would continue to build up in the atmosphere — breaching the level of 450 parts per million by volume (ppmv) that most climatologists now recommend as an upper limit, then passing the 550 ppmv mark that is the goal of many current policy initiatives, and eventually reaching 1,000 ppmv, a level not seen on Earth since the days of the dinosaurs.

Government keep ducking that one, their zero carbon homes policy (by 2016) gets a lot of airtime, but the fact is it's only new build and therefore addresses less than one percent of the problem (in 8 years time..).

President Hu Jintao (pictured right) of China announced that China will build on existing domestic climate change policies as embodied in its National Climate Change Programme and current Five Year Plan to step up its efforts on energy efficiency, development of low - carbon energy such as renewables and nuclear, and increase of forestry cover.

«What is driving [the price rise] is the increase in transport and distribution costs, the costs of operating the grid and, secondly, the other area is environmental and policy costs, feed - in tariffs, the cost of building the data centre for the smart meter programme, the carbon pricing strategies.

The overarching objective of this study is to analyse the scale and scope of investments in low - carbon technologies in power generation, transport, buildings and industry (including heating and cooling) that are needed to facilitate such a transition in a cost - effective manner, while also working towards other policy goals.

Its key implementation tools are building intervention points that align and integrate building energy upgrade policies with the capital improvement and major renovation cycles of existing buildings, as well as zero net carbon building standards that apply to all buildings.

Since 2010, Aviva has implemented a polluter pays policy across the business, to support implementation of their carbon reduction programme and build employee understanding of Aviva's actions as a responsible business.

These baselines and the associated accounting systems, used to track progress, are crucial early steps that set the stage for forest countries to secure financial support and implement policies that can build up forest carbon.

The event convened government, businesses, researchers and academia to discuss a pathway towards decarbonization, as all actors play their part to build global partnerships that facilitate structural transformation and technological innovation, seek continuous improvement of climate policy and establish strong economic mechanisms, such as carbon pricing, that will build a low - carbon economy.

Drawing on global best practice policies, we undertake to remove barriers, establish incentives, enhance capacity - building, and implement appropriate measures to aggressively accelerate deployment and transfer of key existing and new low - carbon technologies, in accordance with national circumstances.

My hope is that victories like this one will help build the momentum to generate the kind of people power necessary to move the needle on comprehensive climate policy — policy that prices carbon, removes subsidies for oil companies, and encourages clean energy development.

Most countries have suites of policies designed to reduce their emissions: cue electrification of transportation, building efficiency codes, carbon pricing, etc..

We suggest therefore that either approach can be used independently as a device to build support for carbon policies, but there is little precedent for using both simultaneously.

How buildings are used, in energy terms, is becoming a crucial issue: energy costs are rising; various policy drivers (such as display energy certificates) mean that there is increasing awareness of the environmental impact of the built environment; and the pricing and rationing from the CRC (carbon reduction commitment) will begin to bite over the next few years.

Establish policies and programs around carbon footprintreduction, green buildings, waste management and water conservation.

[47] To facilitate a «holistic approach», the Policy Unit has sought information on «priority issues», ranging from sustainable building and construction methods to carbon emissions and ecotourism.